We’re only ten days away from when Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever premieres in theaters, which means we’re a little over a week away from finally seeing Tenoch Huerta Mejía’s Namor on the big screen.
If you can’t wait those ten days, however, Marvel Studios has got you covered—they’ve released a featurette that gives us a glimpse of Namor and some insight on what drives him.
“Only the most broken people can be great leaders,” Mejía as Namor says at the beginning of the short video. That’s a dark viewpoint about life, but he’s got a point? The featurette goes on to have Coogler and Mejía talk about Namor and how he ruled over his people in Talokan (the MCU’s name for Namor’s underwater city of Atlantis in the comics).
Namor is coming for the surface world, yes, but from his perspective, it’s what he has to do to protect his people. “To be a ruler, you have to serve the people,” Mejía says about his character. For Namor in Wakanda Forever, serving his people seems to mean destroying everyone who lives on the surface world, which isn’t great for anyone who doesn’t live underwater in Talokan.
Mejía also talks about how Namor’s history is personal to him as someone from Mesoamerica. “Finally, I could find a more powerful representation of my culture, with dignity and respect,” he shares. The video also gives us a few more shots of Talokan, but we’ll have to wait until Black Panther: Wakanda Forever premieres in theaters on Friday, November 11th to see the underwater realm in all its glory.
